What are we supposed to take from this except that it has never been about the public’s health. It has always been about compliance with diktats from on high. If you refuse to do what St Fauci tells you, despite whatever misgivings you may have that they never properly address, then you must be punished.
"If Djokovic gets a vaccine at this moment it would be against the ancestral, Wuhan strain of the coronavirus." <-- This is what makes current vaccination demands so insane.
"Consider the facts. Djokovic is 35 years old, and he is in terrific health. He has had and recovered from Covid-19 twice." <-- THE SCIENCE's denial of natural immunity is the most profoundly dishonest aspect of the entire response to Covid. Throwing out thousands of years of medical understanding so that Big Pharma can make money is profoundly unethical, perhaps even criminal.
I completely agree with Dr Prasad. Although I am not a fan of Djokovic, it is completely hypocritical of this administration to allow millions of likely unvaccinated illegal immigrants to stream over the border, but bar him and others from entry.
“If I were him, I would have gotten the vaccine in early 2021 (as I did), prior to having had Covid-19.”
It’s really upsetting that Vinay continues to support healthy people getting the vaccine back in 2021. He loses me when he does this. Is he also ignoring the side effects this vaccine has had on athletes, specifically young men?
Seems to me that this is all about the White House refusing to admit that it’s fallible. It backed the wrong horse in Fauci. And it uses twisted magic in lieu of logic to make it look the horse actually won the race, when in fact it’s running the wrong way around the track.
Barring Djokovic is completely unjustified. He would be the healthiest person in New York. Vaccinating children and mandating vaccines for anyone are worse given the fact that the rushed, experimental vaccines don’t work, they weaken immunity and they occasionally kill.
So what have Democrats got right? The answer is nothing. If you aren’t voting Republican across the board in November you are complicit and partly responsible for this chaos.
One thing that has perplexed me through all of this: how did the collection of smart, technically astute social media and technology companies become so enlisted in the government narrative about COVID and vaccines? These are the very people who should have been demanding data and resisting authoritarianism, yet were in the forefront of canceling and censoring anyone who actually followed the “prove your hypothesis” tradition of the scientific method. They appear to have been in the vanguard of the mass hysteria regarding COVID, and aligned in lockstep with oppressive government actions at every level, reversing a long-held tradition of anti-establishment philosophy and entrepreneurial bent.
Point well made. I am very confident that the over 2 million illegal entrants at our southern border have all presented their vaccination cards to CBP before being welcomed to the U.S. This is only one of dozens of contradictory actions of this administration. My only question for the doctor is, “Faced with this blatant politicization, why are you still a Democrat?”
Recently, these restrictions and edicts have always been about power and control and politicians proving they can make everyone do what they want—it's a prelude to an authoritarian, totalitarian state.
I read this article on the heels of a WhatsApp message from a parent physician in my school community urging parents to give their elementary aged children the booster before the start of school. This outraged me on so many levels (including the denial of acquired immunity from prior infection, the fact that the booster is formulated on the Wuhan strain, the 99.99% recovery rate for healthy people under aged 70, even before vaccines were rolled out, the admission by the CDC that there’s no discernible difference between vaxxed ad unvaxxed, etc.) and has further eroded my trust in the (medical) establishment. Banning Djokovic has no scientific or public health merit.
Vinay wrote this as a Democrat and It’s great to see democrats stepping up and speaking truth. But one question… how can anyone still be a democrat? Every major and insane issue we have as a country right now is supported, exacerbated, or perpetrated by this party.
Well said. I got the vax in early 2021, but refused any 'boosters' and deferred a European vacation that required it. At this point, the vaccine is not a good match for the virus, as demonstrated by your good examples of all the people who've been jabbed many times and yet still got the virus. Djokovic is not an at risk individual and regardless, it's his decision. What is going on in this country??? How can anyone feel confidence in our health leaders? I guess that answer is clear, confidence has been replaced by suspicion and disrespect.
V O T E them out. I made a firm commitment earlier this summer to jump on Trump Train if Novak is not playing the US open. It’s been one and a half years of living in terror for losing my job and for being scorned and literally told BY MY FRIENDS that I should DIE for my personal medical choices. I will never forget. I am blessed to live in GA and to be a state employee. My governor opened the state early and protected my job with his EO, and a Trump appointed judge in my state blocked the federal contractor mandate that almost made me lose my job (because I apparently work in the same “working space” with federal contractors). I received lots of insulting mass emails from colleagues that suffered no consequences. For what? I had the alpha strain on March 3 2020 and I got over it in one day. This mass madness twisted my entire perspective on what I thought this country was about. Fuck Joe Biden and Fauci and Bourla and all the other criminals that destroyed our lives. I will vote red top to bottom this November, for the first time, with Tarantino levels of delightful revenge in my heart. And it will all be dedicated to Novak, the man who stood up for the sanctity of his gorgeous and healthy body.
On the rare occasion they are honest, public health officials will admit segregating restaurants and facilities was not about stoping the spread but degrading people into accepting the vaccine. A vaccine which has now been proven to be mildly effective and wears off in a short period.
What are we supposed to take from this except that it has never been about the public’s health. It has always been about compliance with diktats from on high. If you refuse to do what St Fauci tells you, despite whatever misgivings you may have that they never properly address, then you must be punished.
"If Djokovic gets a vaccine at this moment it would be against the ancestral, Wuhan strain of the coronavirus." <-- This is what makes current vaccination demands so insane.
"Consider the facts. Djokovic is 35 years old, and he is in terrific health. He has had and recovered from Covid-19 twice." <-- THE SCIENCE's denial of natural immunity is the most profoundly dishonest aspect of the entire response to Covid. Throwing out thousands of years of medical understanding so that Big Pharma can make money is profoundly unethical, perhaps even criminal.
I completely agree with Dr Prasad. Although I am not a fan of Djokovic, it is completely hypocritical of this administration to allow millions of likely unvaccinated illegal immigrants to stream over the border, but bar him and others from entry.
“If I were him, I would have gotten the vaccine in early 2021 (as I did), prior to having had Covid-19.”
It’s really upsetting that Vinay continues to support healthy people getting the vaccine back in 2021. He loses me when he does this. Is he also ignoring the side effects this vaccine has had on athletes, specifically young men?
Seems to me that this is all about the White House refusing to admit that it’s fallible. It backed the wrong horse in Fauci. And it uses twisted magic in lieu of logic to make it look the horse actually won the race, when in fact it’s running the wrong way around the track.
Barring Djokovic is completely unjustified. He would be the healthiest person in New York. Vaccinating children and mandating vaccines for anyone are worse given the fact that the rushed, experimental vaccines don’t work, they weaken immunity and they occasionally kill.
So what have Democrats got right? The answer is nothing. If you aren’t voting Republican across the board in November you are complicit and partly responsible for this chaos.
One thing that has perplexed me through all of this: how did the collection of smart, technically astute social media and technology companies become so enlisted in the government narrative about COVID and vaccines? These are the very people who should have been demanding data and resisting authoritarianism, yet were in the forefront of canceling and censoring anyone who actually followed the “prove your hypothesis” tradition of the scientific method. They appear to have been in the vanguard of the mass hysteria regarding COVID, and aligned in lockstep with oppressive government actions at every level, reversing a long-held tradition of anti-establishment philosophy and entrepreneurial bent.
Point well made. I am very confident that the over 2 million illegal entrants at our southern border have all presented their vaccination cards to CBP before being welcomed to the U.S. This is only one of dozens of contradictory actions of this administration. My only question for the doctor is, “Faced with this blatant politicization, why are you still a Democrat?”
Recently, these restrictions and edicts have always been about power and control and politicians proving they can make everyone do what they want—it's a prelude to an authoritarian, totalitarian state.
If Djokovic swims across the Rio Grande, will they let him play?
I read this article on the heels of a WhatsApp message from a parent physician in my school community urging parents to give their elementary aged children the booster before the start of school. This outraged me on so many levels (including the denial of acquired immunity from prior infection, the fact that the booster is formulated on the Wuhan strain, the 99.99% recovery rate for healthy people under aged 70, even before vaccines were rolled out, the admission by the CDC that there’s no discernible difference between vaxxed ad unvaxxed, etc.) and has further eroded my trust in the (medical) establishment. Banning Djokovic has no scientific or public health merit.
Vinay wrote this as a Democrat and It’s great to see democrats stepping up and speaking truth. But one question… how can anyone still be a democrat? Every major and insane issue we have as a country right now is supported, exacerbated, or perpetrated by this party.
Well said. I got the vax in early 2021, but refused any 'boosters' and deferred a European vacation that required it. At this point, the vaccine is not a good match for the virus, as demonstrated by your good examples of all the people who've been jabbed many times and yet still got the virus. Djokovic is not an at risk individual and regardless, it's his decision. What is going on in this country??? How can anyone feel confidence in our health leaders? I guess that answer is clear, confidence has been replaced by suspicion and disrespect.
V O T E them out. I made a firm commitment earlier this summer to jump on Trump Train if Novak is not playing the US open. It’s been one and a half years of living in terror for losing my job and for being scorned and literally told BY MY FRIENDS that I should DIE for my personal medical choices. I will never forget. I am blessed to live in GA and to be a state employee. My governor opened the state early and protected my job with his EO, and a Trump appointed judge in my state blocked the federal contractor mandate that almost made me lose my job (because I apparently work in the same “working space” with federal contractors). I received lots of insulting mass emails from colleagues that suffered no consequences. For what? I had the alpha strain on March 3 2020 and I got over it in one day. This mass madness twisted my entire perspective on what I thought this country was about. Fuck Joe Biden and Fauci and Bourla and all the other criminals that destroyed our lives. I will vote red top to bottom this November, for the first time, with Tarantino levels of delightful revenge in my heart. And it will all be dedicated to Novak, the man who stood up for the sanctity of his gorgeous and healthy body.
On the rare occasion they are honest, public health officials will admit segregating restaurants and facilities was not about stoping the spread but degrading people into accepting the vaccine. A vaccine which has now been proven to be mildly effective and wears off in a short period.
100% of
👏👏👏
the people doing
👏👏👏👏
this evil and stupid shit
👏👏👏👏👏
are Democrats
👏👏👏👏👏👏